conclusions our results suggest that the personnel in the five participating faculties were highly satisfied with the practical performance of the residents, who were found to hold good attitudes towards the program as a whole. background the goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of intubation skill training involving the use of mannequins on novice anesthesiology residents in a knowled...

using greedy clustering method to solve capacitated location-routing problem with fuzzy demands abstract in this paper, the capacitated location routing problem with fuzzy demands (clrp_fd) is considered. in clrp_fd, facility location problem (flp) and vehicle routing problem (vrp) are observed simultaneously. indeed the vehicles and the depots have a predefined capacity to serve the customerst...

generally, a typical problem which is crucial in a manufacturing system is increasing the production rate.  to cope with the problem, different types of techniques are used in companies by trial and error which imposes high costs on them. using simulation as a tool for assessing the effect of alterations on the performance of the overall system might be significant. this paper considers a simul...

In this paper we describe the results of our simulation analysis of a high-performance processing architecture based on the RapidIO network protocol. RapidIO is a 10 Gb/s, lowlatency packet-switched interconnect technology designed for processor-to-processor, processorto-memory, and processor-to-peripheral interconnects. Two network topologies were simulated, a simple network consisting of an 8...

This paper introduces a multi-agent belief revision algorithm based on belief networks. The algorithm utilizes knowledge about reliability or trustworthiness of information sources to generate the most probable perspective of the system. Incorporating reliability information into belief revision mechanisms is essential for agents in real world multi-agent systems where information sources with ...

crop simulation models are increasingly used in agriculture. these models help in saving time and expenses. the objective of this study was to evaluate cropsyst model in predicting development, growth and yield of wheat cultivars from golestan province. to do this, experimental data from different experiments were gathered for kohdasht, shiroodi, tajan and zagros. model performance in simulatin...

We present CASE (complex adaptive systems evolver), a framework devised to conduct the design of agent-based simulation experiments using evolutionary computation techniques. This framework enables one to optimize complex agent-based systems, to exhibit pre-specified behavior of interest, through the use of multi-objective evolutionary algorithms and cloud computing facilities.